“…democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable but that to strive for it produces something utterly different – the very destruction of freedom itself. As has been aptly said: ‘What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.'” F.A. Hayek

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" Ben Franklin

"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as
they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant
lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large
cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe."Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787